“This is my idea of what older people dwell on later in life,” Italian director Paolo Sorrentino told Deadline today about his latest film Youth, a title much like his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty that centers around accomplished men’s reflection on ‘what could have been’, but against a colorful, absurdist…

Norwegian director Joachim Trier has been to Cannes before, with his hit Oslo, August 31st, but he returns this year as part of the Official Selection for the first time. Louder Than Bombs is also his English-language debut, and it stars Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid. The story…

In the wake of Breaking Bad and such films as Traffic and Savages, you’d think you’ve seen it all when it comes to epic drug cartel stories. But then you haven’t seen Lionsgate’s Sicario. Explains director Denis Villeneuve on how Sicario stands apart, “It’s a hybrid cartel and war movie…it’s about the victims of the…

Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha is screening in Critics’ Week here tonight, a few days after the debut feature helmer entered a two-picture deal with A24 which also acquired Krisha. The film earlier world premiered at SXSW, winning the Grand Jury and Audience Awards. I spoke with Shults a few weeks ago, as he was prepping…

Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin came to Cannes out of nowhere two years ago to announce the arrival of a new talent looking at film in a different way. He's back, now, channeling Sam Peckinpah with Green Room, a horror thriller that stars Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat and Anton Yelchin.
For Yelchin, who…

John C. Reilly is one of the busiest men in Cannes this year, with three films in Official Selection. But he took time out to stop by the Deadline Video Studio at the Nikki Beach Petit Bar to chat about Tale Of Tales and The Lobster, which are in Competition, and Les Cowboys in Directors’ Fortnight. A very dapper…

Noomi Rapace has had a pretty voracious appetite for challenging roles since before she became an international name thanks to the Swedish-language Millennium trilogy. In that series she played tough-as-nails Lisbeth Salander. It takes a rare talent to go from that to, in a few short years, taking on world-famous…

No Italian-American actor loves returning to Italy to work in local films more than John Turturro. He played Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi in the late Francesco Rosi’s 1997 feature The Truce. Turturro frequently collaborates with director-cinematographer Marco Pontecorvo, who directed the actor in this year’s Tempo ins…

Gus Van Sant’s Cannes Film Festival Competition entry The Sea Of Trees unspooled here over the weekend. Van Sant is no stranger to Cannes, having previously won the Palme d’Or with Elephant in 2003. Before the Sea Of Trees screening, he and I sat down on the Majestic Beach to talk about how the existential drama came…

Actors typically commit to a film project when they comfortably know who will be in the director’s chair, however, screenwriter Phyllis Nagy’s screenplay for Carol, the feature adaption of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price Of Salt, was so riveting, Cate Blanchett immediately committed. The project, which started…

Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley are among Britain’s most accomplished film producers. Through their company Number 9 Films, they’ve been behind some of the country’s most successful indies — movies including The Crying Game, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People and a pair of projects at this year’s Canness…